On September 21, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a meeting with Jalil Abbas Jilani, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, on the sidelines of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly. The conversation focused on the current bilateral and international agenda, including Ukraine and Afghanistan. The parties reaffirmed their mutual commitment to building up bilateral trade and economic cooperation and interaction ...
Now this organisation is not a body of the international community, but a relatively open platform for communication between representatives of different countries
All major wars of the second half of the 20
th
century ended without the participation of this organisation and its permanent bureaucratic structures....
The US and its allies are beating a drum that isn’t finding receptive ears. Most states have other priorities
The UN’s High-Level Week – an annual gathering of senior representatives of member states who address the General Assembly – is taking place in New York. It is a period of speeches of varying length and intensive contacts between ministers or even heads ...
The geopolitical situation is hampering the promotion of Russian initiatives – so far confrontational rhetoric, rather than dialogue, has prevailed. Yet, the OEWG keeps on working in the UN venues, which inspires certain optimism
September 2023 marks the 25
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anniversary of Russia’s revolutionary move in 1998, as 25 years ago Russia became the first country to raise the issue of information security at the UN, having timely assessed ...
Changes not seen in one hundred years are taking place – and the Global South stands to benefit. Africa is the world’s youngest continent.[1] Leveraging its population pidend, Africa has a unique opportunity to transform in the coming decades – Russian and Chinese support ...
... view to boosting peaceful development of the ICT environment, both globally and bilaterally. However, Washington is betting on maintaining its leadership and deterrence of Russia in cyberspace, so reaching agreements in the near future seems rather unlikely.
Amid a complex geopolitical environment, communication between the two countries needs to be maintained for managing contradictions and reducing the risk of escalation in cyberspace. Today, bilateral interaction takes place on the platform of ...
There is urgent need to establish an international mechanism, dedicated to addressing the most grievous cybercrimes
In the current international environment, the significance of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is steadily rising. In this context, international cooperation is gradually moving towards a legal architecture for ICT governance and international information security (IIS) as an integral part of the overall international ...
Moscow is calling for an end to the policy of collective punishment of the Syrians and has urged its partners to start rebuilding the Syrian economy
On January 9, 2023, the UN Security Council extended the cross-border mechanism for the supply of humanitarian aid to the north-western regions of Syria. According ...
On November 8, 2022, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with Krystyna Marty Lang, Swiss Ambassador to Russia, and Christoph Gerch, Defense Attache of the Swiss Embassy
On November 8, 2022, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with Krystyna Marty ...
Cyberspace is increasingly becoming a major area of confrontation in the U.S.-Russia relations.
Since 1998, the UN has annually adopted a Russia-sponsored resolution titled Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security. A year ago, however, Russia and the U.S.
for the first time submitted
a joint draft ...